Kenneth Branagh is probably best known for his increasingly experimental Film adaptions of Shakespearean plays, and he brings that mindset to The Magic Flute. The story is transported to a fairytale-esque riff on WWI, scrubbed of the majority of its masonic, racial and misogynistic elements, and given an english libretto by Stephen Fry. All of this is well and good to me as a causal opera buff.
Branagh goes to war with Mozart's Magic Flute - Telegraph.
The Magic Flute (2006), directed by Kenneth Branagh with a new English translation by Stephen Fry, is more traditional, aside from being set during World War I. Other adaptations include a Comic Book by P. Craig Russell with an ending that can be best described as trippy, a novelization (Night's Daughter) by Marion Zimmer Bradley, an ABC Weekend Special starring Mark Hamill as Tamino, and.During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems.Despite Opera magazine’s squawky hissy fit, Kenneth Branagh’s treatment of Mozart’s last masterpiece (libretto: Stephen Fry) is no more outrageous than most mod.
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